Police launched an investigation when the pile of cash was discovered missing, along with the Adelaide Remand Centre corrections officer who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Inmate left unsupervised for 52 minutes at high-security SA jail before planned escape: report
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A remand prisoner being housed in a high-security Adelaide jail was left unsupervised in a kitchen for almost an hour when he executed his planned escape last month, a summary report reveals.
Key points:
He used clothing to abseil out an air vent in the kitchen
The SA Government will not release the full report
MPs are demanding answers over a daring escape of a prisoner last month.
Crime by Matt Smith
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Subscriber only Investigations are continuing into the broad daylight escape of prisoner in Adelaide s CBD last month. On the one month anniversary of the incident, in which a prisoner escaped from the Adelaide Remand Centre by bending window louvres in the kitchen area, before scaling down a wall in rope made from pants and a T-shirt, the Opposition has called for answers.
Jason Burdon, 33, was apprehended and arrested, a day and a half after his daring escape, that had occurred just before 10am on December 2 2020.